Epidemic Modelling of COVID-19 We built an approach to simulate the effect of different public health interventions against the spread of COVID-19. Although created for the Cox’s Bazar refugee settlement in Bangladesh, the model is designed to be generalizable to other settings. The results are helping professionals in Cox’s Bazar settlement make faster and more informed …
Read our latest scientific paper where we simulate the potential effects of various interventions against the spread of COVID-19.
The spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems and infrastructures across the world, exacerbating inequalities and leaving the world’s most vulnerable populations most affected. Given their density and available infrastructure, refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) settlements can be particularly susceptible to disease spread. Non-pharmaceutical public health interventions can …
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To support data-driven decision making in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team made up of Cox’s Bazar public health and information management professionals, scientists and domain experts from UN Global Pulse, UNHCR Innovation, OCHA, and academics from Durham University and IBM/MIT are working to model the impact of possible public health operational interventions in …
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The Geo-AI Working Group is part of the UN Open GIS Iniaitive and is co-chaired by FAO and UN Global Pulse.
UN Global Pulse has joined the UN Open GIS Initiative as co-chair of a newly formed Geo-AI Working Group alongside the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). UN Open GIS is an ongoing Partnership Initiative for Technology in Peacekeeping of the United Nations Department of Operational Support (UN DOS), The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is …
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